From The Science of Everyday Life by Van Buskirk, Smith & Nourse, 1931.

From The Science of Everyday Life by Van Buskirk, Smith & Nourse, 1931.

From Secrets of the Stars by Inez McFee, 1922.

From Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911.

Fall then summer then spring then winter.  This unusual series of seasons recalls this other diagram we featured previously.  From Workbook to Accompany The Story Road by Mabel J. Henderson, 1948.

From Text Books of Art Education V by Hugo Froehlich and Bonnie Snow, 1904.

The four seasons are salt, mustard, vinegar, and pepper.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.

From Astronomical Myths, Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens" by J. F. Blake, 1877.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for a different perspective.
From Science Indoors and Out by Hensley & Patterson and illustrated by John Jones, 1931

From Together, 1963.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to roll in to springtime. From Bay Path College's 1953 yearbook.

"Ancients had sense,  Dated beginning of year from opening of Spring.  When all things in nature start afresh."  From the Duluth Herald, 1896.

From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.

Sundial and snowdial.  From the University of Illinois' 1931 yearbook.

From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.

From George Fox's 1978 yearbook.

From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.

Why this particular ordering of the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, summer?  In the universe of universities, the year begins in the autumn.  We began our own college career in the spring, and our body clock has been "off" ever since.

From Elizabethtown's 1966 yearbook.

"As we follow the sun -- so follow the seasons."  From Mansfield's 1950 yearbook.